Table 4.

Average Inpatient Opioid Consumption per Hospital Day^*

	No.	POD 0–1	POD 2	POD 3	POD 4	POD 5	POD 6	POD 7	POD 8
Group
Controls, mg	40	52.86 ± 52.0	29.9 ± 42.53	16.0 ± 26.83	7.11 ± 10.27	4.13 ± 3.93	8.50 ± 5.74	12.00 ± 2.83	0 ± 0.00
TAP-Cath, mg	48	7.25 ± 12.82	5.17 ± 7.05	3.60 ± 4.35	2.95 ± 4.24	2.00 ± 2.31	2.00 ± 2.83	4.00 ± 0.00	—
TAP-LB, mg	40	1.88 ±3.97	2.12 ± 4.95	2.23 ± 4.12	2.00 ± 2.31	—	—	—	—
Global p†		<0.0001	<0.0001	0.0181	0.1998	0.2685	0.1391	—	—
TAP-Cath vs. controls‡		<0.0001	0.0026	0.0146	—	—	—	—	—
TAP-LB vs. controls‡		<0.0001	0.0009	0.0075	—	—	—	—	—
TAP-LB vs.TAP-Cath‡		0.0081	0.0270	0.2157	—	—	—	—	—

POD, postoperative day; TAP-Cath, transversus abdominis plane-catheter; TAP-LB, transversus abdominis plane-liposomal bupivacaine.

^*Intravenous morphine equivalents (in milligrams).

^†Determined using the Welch analysis of variance using a significance level of 0.05.

^‡Pairwise comparisons were performed using the Welch t test with a Bonferroni correction of 0.016.